Hey you! Do you have any idea what you’ve done? THAT’S RIGHT, YOU RAISED $90,000 IN UNDER A WEEK! Who does that? Who DOES that? Who does that? You do! You are everything!!! Give yourself one of these!
It is so thrilling to see so many beautiful people rally around this community, and we’re not done yet! Contribute to the flex goal today!
I heard a rumor that if the flex goal is met, every single senior editor will buzz their heads like Laneia just did. (It’s not true. It’s a false rumor that I just made up. Also all of the senior editors have really amazing hair and they should do what makes them happy. BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE?) Anyway, for info on today’s ACTUAL amazing, secret flex goal perks and surprises that I don’t even know about yet, follow Autostraddle on Twitter and Instagram!
Anyway! This week’s Baopu was so beautiful and thoughtful.
Abeni had some really lovely discoveries for us in this week’s Queer Your Ears.
Listen, all I can say about this essay is that it is absolutely fucking perfect, and made me aspire to figuring out what I want and manifesting it, but ALSO to printing a representation of my best self on the back of a letterman jacket: How I Claimed Being Thirsty as a Personal Lifestyle and Learned to Live My Dreams.
Oh hey, it’s about time! The L Word: Generation Q finally announced the casting of a trans actress.
Drew wrote about dating in 2019 and MTV’s reality show, Are You The One.
And then there were your comments!
The NICE PERSON HAVING A DAY Award to Elly and Christina:
On How I Claimed Being Thirsty as a Personal Lifestyle and Learned to Live My Dreams:
The With Honors Award to pips:
On Hallelujah, “L Word: Generation Q” Has Cast a Trans Actress: Sophie Giannamore Joins Cast:
The Captain Sarcasm Award to Tessa:
On No Filter: Stephanie Beatriz Riding a Musical Seal is My Summer Mood:
The A (Camp) Type Award to thatottergirl:
On 20 Lesbian and Bisexual Comedy Movies, Ranked:
The Cereal Killer Award to kris, Kemmer, and Kate:
And on We Did It! We Raised $90K! Now We’re Thinking Bigger!
The Trauma Rewrite Award to Avery and Jordan:
And the Dad of the Year Award to Chess:
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what a good week it has been in the straddleverse <3 <3
kris, kemmer and kate, you probably need to start a band with those names, just sayin :-*
KaKeKri
keep an eye out for our smash hit single, “desiree akhavan”
such a good name for a song
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count me in
Rachel buzzing her hair? Can you imagine?
it would truly be the end of an era, rachel and vanessa have magic hair
queer girl!!! thank you for seeing us. <3
This is no doubt why I misread the Queer Sex Coven title as “How to Cast Spells with Your Hair”
LANEIA OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK I AM DEAD WOW
my exact reaction
So hot
Mu jaw kinda dropped. Thank you, Laneia, I hope you like it as much as we all do.
“Mu” = “My” : Unless I have missed something previously, Laneia’s new haircut is responsible for my first-ever typo in an AS comment. Which seems fair. Imma get back to work now asdlfkjhflkjvakjbkj.
Cereal killer. Hee hee.
I love this column and this community so much.
This has been such a joyful week in the comments!! 💖
Chess’s Dad though. What a Dad ! I didn’t know they still made Dads like that !
So happy for this win. First, I’d like to thank Jordan for being my Pippen. I would, also, like to thank Autostraddle and the Straddleverse for existing. You cannot measure gratitude in dollars and cents. And there will never be a graph that could accurately reflect just how much of an effect you all have had on people’s lives. You have always been there for us so to paraphrase Penelope Alvarez, “We’ve got you.”
“I’d like to thank Jordan for being my Pippen. ”
Standing ovation for this
Much appreciated. I reciprocate for your name and Avatar.
Sorry I’m late to the party, I forgot to check the Comment Awards post yesterday! Thanks as always @queergirl, for appreciating me and my inability to resist anyone on the blonde girl spectrum